Position indicators

A selection of the latest product news, technical articles and application examples for the term Position indicators:

Process Reliability in Tube Production: How ...

SIKO GmbH: Large tubes, small tubes, long tubes, thick tubes, flat tubes, miniature tubes—tubes are produced in countless sizes and formats for oral care, cosmetics, and in the pharmaceutical industry. The machines that produce the packaging...

2024-04-19

Vertical woodworking: space-saving and ergonomic

SIKO GmbH: Striebig AG is a generic term for vertical panel saws just like a certain handkerchief brand is for paper tissues. And yet the company from Lucerne, Switzerland with about 70 employees tends to be considered one of the hidden champions....

2022-09-27

Position indicator AP05 IO-Link ...

SIKO GmbH: As a pioneer for bus-compatible position indicators for monitored size changeover, SIKO is presenting the AP05 as the most compact version in this segment, now with an integrated IO-Link interface. As the core element of monitored size...

2022-07-21

Smart components for a high degree of automation

SIKO GmbH: Automation, Industry 4.0 and Big Data are the key technology trends in the industrial sector. Braun Sondermaschinen GmbH recognized these trends early on and utilizes them for developing fully automated production lines –...

2022-03-04

Pharma 4.0 with intelligent size changeover

SIKO GmbH: “Size changeover" is not necessarily a term that immediately makes people stop and pay attention in the pharmaceutical industry. However, considering the challenges in pharmaceutical manufacturing, which are characterized by cost...

2021-12-01

Reliable operator guidance for size changeover

SIKO GmbH: When companies need packaging machines for their products – whether it’s for coffee capsules, cough sweets, batteries or plasters – the most important aspect of the investment is to find the most flexible solution that...

2020-09-10

In position with IO link

SIKO GmbH: In order to ensure that form, fill and seal and cartoning machines can be used flexibly, it is important, among other things, that the system is optimally adapted to changing packaging formats. ROVEMA, one of the leading manufacturers...

2020-04-17

SIKO position indicators ensure process security in Track & Trace systems from WIPOTE C-OCS

SIKO GmbH: In the pharmaceutical industry, this topic is still generating a great deal of attention: the European Falsified Medicines Directive (2011/62/EU), which entered into force on 9 February 2019, requires all prescription medicines to be...

2019-07-23

In position with IO-Link

SIKO GmbH: Bus-capable position indicators and actuators from SIKO are virtually indispensable in machine construction today. They help make size changeover processes more efficient and reliable, thus enabling the flexible conversion of modern...

2019-05-27

Green light for reduced setup times

SIKO GmbH: “Increase system availability. Reduce setup times. Minimize waste. Ensure product safety.” These are the requirements for optimizing size changeover in production systems. Intelligent systems that make product changes faster...

2019-02-12

Position indicator AP10 IO-Link – Efficiency ...

SIKO GmbH: Bus-capable position indicators from SIKO are the heart of a monitored size changeover, and are indispensable in machine construction today. Their ability to display the setpoint and actual value on the adjusting spindle to the machine...

2019-01-22

AP20S - Smart position indicator for reliable ..

SIKO GmbH: Compact and equipped with the latest interfaces – The new SIKO AP20S position indicator is extremely easy to integrate. In combination with the MS500H linear magnetic sensor with external connection, it is ideally equipped to...

2018-07-04

Bus-compatible position indicators AP05 ...

SIKO GmbH: Siko’s bus-compatible position indicators are globally indispensable for flexible production machines. Monitoring of the adjustable positions ensures 100% process-reliability and a shorter set-up time for each and every product...

2016-10-06

Camouflaged development mule for the new ...

SIKO GmbH: The new AP05 - seen here still as a camouflaged development mule - is the most compact of all bus-compatible position indicators from SIKO. As the successor to the AP04 (the best-selling bus-compatible position indicator worldwide), the...

2016-07-06

AP 10 Position Indicator - Dazzling Prospects ..

SIKO GmbH: Nowadays, it's impossible to imagine mechanical engineering without bus-capable position indicators from SIKO at the core of a monitored format adjustment. Their ability to indicate to the machine operator the nominal value and current...

2014-07-15

SIKO control knobs with built-in position indicator

SIKO GmbH: How do you combine a hand wheel with a position indicator? The engineers at SIKO were already working on this question back in 2000. That is when SIKO GmbH came up with the DK01 control knob - a completely new type of product for the...

2012-09-16

Electronic position indicator DE10P - greater flexibility

SIKO GmbH: With the electronic DE10P position indicator, SIKO GmbH rounds off the top end of its existing product range of battery-operated indicators. As a leading manufacturers of distance and angle measuring technology, SIKO GmbH already offers...

2012-06-16

Electronic position indicator from SIKO with highly ...

SIKO GmbH: With the new electronic DKE01 control knob, SIKO GmbH offers an innovative solution for the ergonomic positioning of rollers, shafts and tools in engineering applications. Building on the handwheels with analogue mechanical displays...

2012-05-16

Handwheel with DKE01 electronic display

SIKO GmbH: In 1963, SIKO GmbH invented a mechanical position indicator integrated in a handwheel – a product the field of mechanical engineering could hardly do without today. As inexpensive and easy-to-use gauges, SIKO handwheels with...

2012-01-16